In 1984 she moved on to be the host of A.M. Chicago, which became The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was syndicated in 1986 when Winfrey was 32 and soon overtook Donahue as the nation s top-rated talk show.
Women, especially, listen to Winfrey because they feel as if she s a friend. Although Phil Donahue pioneered the format she uses , his show was mostly what I call report-talk, which often typifies men s conversation. The overt focus is on information. Winfrey transformed the format into what I call rapport-talk, the back-and-forth conversation that is the basis of female friendship, with its emphasis on self-revealing intimacies. She turned the focus from experts to ordinary people talking about personal issues. Girls and women s friendships are often built on trading secrets. Winfrey s power is that she tells her own, divulging that she once ate a package of hot-dog buns drenched in maple syrup, that she had smoked cocaine, even that she had been raped as a child. With Winfrey, the talk show became more immediate, more confessional, more personal. When a guest s story moves her, she cries and spreads her arms for a hug.
When my book You Just Don t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation was published, I was lucky enough to appear on both Donahue and Oprah and to glimpse the difference between them. Winfrey related my book to her own life: she began by saying she had read the book and saw myself over and over in it. She then told one of my examples, adding, I ve done that a thousand times and illustrated it by describing herself and Stedman.
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